Lars Ulrich | Club Random with Bill Maher
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How does Lars Ulrich describe getting into the performance zone on stage?
How tall are you? Um well on my license it says five eight. Me too. I'm closer to five seven and shrinking, you know, as we're speaking. Do you think we shrink as we age?
Yes. Is that a fact or are you just
Um I think I don't know if it you know, when you're young and you you know, puff your chest out and you strutting along and you got this big fuck off attitude and then when you get older you get a little meeker and you're just kinda like hiding, you know. Well, you know, hiding, you know. Well, you don't have to.
But that you're talking about something that's that's psycho-related, psychosomatic. You know, yes, if your if your attitude toward life is meek and don't hurt me. Lady, I mean, yes, but if you stretch, I mean, I don't know. Of course. Right. But also, I don't think my dick has gotten smaller. I would notice that. I would notice it and I would care, and it would be reflected in the reviews. Yeah.
I think that uh I think it's holding its own. I you know, I I'm not
doubting I know I'm holding mine. It's just one after another, yeah. Okay. So you know what? I can't remember the last time I saw you, but I'm so first of all, I'm so flattered that you would come and do this. No, no, I mean it because I know you got a million things going and you're a big rock star and it never stops. But I know we we have talked before, but I'm I was so happy that having talked to you a little bit, got a little taste of you, that I was now going to get to actually find I don't know where we met, but it was Yeah, I was I was
reminiscing uh with with your guys here. Uh the first time you and I crossed paths and the first time we were on a on a show together was back in the old politically incorrect.
Politically incorrect, right. But that doesn't even count, good.
Who I was on with and I was on with Dennis Miller.
Dennis Miller.
And I remember my big takeaway because at that time most of the the press we were doing, you know, we would do an interview with Kurt Loder at the
nineties.
Yeah, this was uh this was uh in the spring of two thousand. At that time Pretty much all the interviews in the press we would be do with you know, M T V and music stuff and it would be all sort of music related stuff that I'd never been on with a comedian before. And I sat next to Dennis on your show, and I remember he spoke three times louder than anybody I'd ever been around. Uh you know, on Press or Pope. He was saying just So, you know, uh you know uh Bill this Listen to And he everything was really, really loud. I was sitting next to him going, What the fuck? And I realized that when you're around comedians who are used to sort of talking on their own in a club or whatever, they speak loud, they speak assertive.
Not me. And they're really not me.
I'm not gonna do that. And I don't want to but I'm talking about all comedians who who over y I mean, Dennis had a persona. Yeah. My persona is exactly who I am. Of course. I know that. Right. And I'm not to putting Dennis down. Look, we're in show business. You have a persona too, by the way. Of course. Right. Of course. Yeah. And some of that is sprung from who you really are. I think the one reason why you're iconic even to kids, which is quite a trick at our age, to be popular with kids, is because they love Um Authenticity. It's the one thing they can be intuitive about. They're not taught anything in school, but they kinda but they're savvy about who's fake and who's not. And uh you know, they they read that on you and that comes out of who you really are.
So you yes, you have a persona, but it's Yeah, no, I listen they stop but I No, I listen based on that. When
I get up on when I get up on stage and I was doing an interview uh earlier today and and who I was talking to was like, you know, when you get up on stage and you're pulling these crazy faces and you just you're so animated. And I said, you know, it's you get up on stage in front of X thousand people and and you're in a zone and you you just lose yourself in that and you become, whether it's a character or whether it's a persona or whether an exaggerated version of yourself, you definitely morph into something else.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How does Lars Ulrich describe getting into the performance zone on stage?
0:01–7:42
2
What was Metallica’s intention behind the Napster controversy and how did fans react?
7:42–16:09
3
Why did the acoustic‑driven version of “Fade to Black” cause such a backlash among metal fans?
16:09–24:54
4
How do Lars and Bill explain the importance of authenticity for a band’s lasting appeal?
24:54–32:55
5
What does Metallica’s “two‑shows‑per‑city” tour format reveal about modern touring logistics?
32:55–41:53
6
How does the band balance leadership and collaboration when writing and performing songs?
41:53–50:03
7
What challenges do aging rock stars face when performing with younger generations?
50:03–57:09
8
How does Metallica handle criticism, fan turnover, and staying together after 40 years?
57:09–1:05:23